My new nephew!

Here's a pic of my new nephew! He definitely looks so alert though not a full term baby!

Nice nice

I like this picture alot! First time managed to catch both kids looking at the camera n smiling so nicely!

Today is an exciting day, cos my sis went into labour! She's close to 3 weeks earlier than her EDD. Initially her EDD falls on my birthday! Of cos everyone wished my nephew would come out only on my birthday, BUT he had decided to come out early to see everyone of us! hahaha... Anyway, labour is something unpredictable, so long baby is out heathy, that's the most important! Here's wishing my sis, Cecilia, a smooth delivery! Shall post my nephew pic once i get hold of it tomorrow! Cheers!

Photo taken by ashley

Haha. Ashley is really good at taking photos now. This was taken by her with my HP! We even bought her a second hand digital cam for her to catch some shots which we may had missed. Haha.

Barney Ride

Ashley enjoying her Barney ride @ Marina Square during the Father's Day weekend...

Playing @ the playgound

First time brought Adwin down to the playground below our block... Ashley enjoys it alot, cos we seldom bring her down also... Daddy decided to let her play with the new badminton set he got, but she has no clue on how to play with Daddy! hahaha... But, she does enjoy the bubble blowing... Hope we can find time to have such playtime on weekends... wondering if we should buy her a kiddy bike to learn cycling too! so the next outing would be to East Coast Park! hahaha... such an ambitious mummy! :p

My cute Adwin!

Adwin is really adorable nowadays! See his latest expression! And when u see his mouth spouting out like that, he'll also produce a funny sound! But i guess it's all a growing phase, he'll somehow outgrow it one of these days.

And his cough is getting better already, hope he gets will by the next few days. Else it will be his forth week still coughing. Poor thing...

Ashley is 3

Cupbakes I made for ashley's 3rd birthday celebrating @ her childcare.


I had baked the cupcakes last nite till 3am! And gotta up next morning at 6am so can send the kids to childcare and my mum's place.

Decorating them was easy but time consuming.





Ashley was very happy to see ALL of us there, daddy, mummy, both grandmothers n her lovely brother! Everyone sang her birthday song in english n mandarin. Her first birthday celebration with so many children!




Ashley eating the cupcake I baked!


It's also my first time preparing for goodie bags for her friends!! These are what I had bought and got Daddy to help out to put them into the bags & bring to her childcare!! :)


And after the celebration in school, we brought her back and went to Thomas Plaza... Here she's enjoying the donut!! :)


We had another celebration with both our families for dinner...  A picture of us in the restaurant!

My cupcakes for Ashley

The full cupcakes display at the chlidcare...

 

 

 

Flower design using marshmallows!

 

This is specially here so I can see all the nice cupcakes I had made for Ashley... my very first attempt making nice cupcakes... hahaha...

It was a very nice and memorable experience... cos it took me a long time to plan for everything and trying to source for all the raw materials just to make the cupcakes look nice... and of cos, I had been thinking of designs since 1 month back when I decided to take this adventurous route... hahaha...

I didn't know I would take such a long time to bake all the 50 cupcakes... As I need to make sure my 2 kids are asleep before I start baking... and during the process, I had to stop to feed Adwin, and by the time am done, it's already 3am!!... But the cupcakes did not turn out as wonderful as I thought, as I had adjusted the recipe a little, reducing the sugar, as I thought the buttercream icing is very sweet, adding more flour, cos the last time I feel the cake was a bit too buttery... in the end, I find, the original recipe was indeed the right proportion one... hahaha... trying to act smart... :p

My Fa Gao

My fa Gao looks so nice. Haha. It's so easy to make too.

My 2 adorable kids

Adwin is able to sit upstraight now, and hope he's enjoying more solid too. He's only eating plain white rice cereal.

Ashley is also learning to choose the clothes she wanna wear now. She can change up to 10 tops and bottoms a day. Lucky we are washing all their clothings with the washing machine.

My 1st try on Cupcakes!

 

 

This is my first try on making cupcakes myself... being a newbie in cake making, I think my first attempt was really good! hahaha....

I bought the muffin mix from BIY & tried making orange cupcake using only half the mixture... Just don't wanna waste the whole pack of mix!! It turn out OK, but like what my sis told me, maybe I had beat the mixture too long... somehow it's not moist enough... And, the buttercream is abit too 'sandy' to the taste... Guess I had put in too much icing sugar! hahaha...

But the make over on the cupcakes was quite interesting... Had been worrying about controlling the buttercream with the design tips... but lucky everything feels ok...

Wondering why did I suddenly go into cupcakes??? Cos Ashley's birthday falls on 1st July! We thought to have a celebration in her childcare... SO, I decided to try making birthday cupcakes for my Ashley's friends!! so adventurous! hahaha...

And if you noticed, my wordings for "Happy Father's Day" is missing the "'s" on the "Father" due to limited space! hahaha... But considering this is my first attempt, it's a BIG success!! *wink*

No more pacifier for Ashley

Yesterday marks the end of 2 weeks in which Ashley no longer had her pacifier!! It's such a tough task to stop her from sucking onto her pacifier since birth till 2 weeks back, that's consider 2years & 10-1/2months!!

Of course, she'll still ask for her 'zui zui' occasionally, trying her luck to see if anyone would pass it to her!! hahaha... but it's good now that all her photos taken are without the pacifier in her mouth!!

How did I manage to stop her from sucking her pacifier??... I also find it amazing, but was quite insistent this time on not giving in to her anymore... I had told her tons of lies and funny stories on how her pacifier went missing, even how big that 'ga-ga' (insect) was and now I no longer able to get it back for her!! And we tried not to go to the Baby department of any departmental stores or supermarkets, just in case she saw them & ask us to buy for her, it'll be another 'hu-ha' from her, as she'll be screaming and crying for us to buy it for her!!

And I guess it's also the missing pacifier outside of her childcare, that bringing her to childcare now is consider a 'breeze' for us... As previously she would be able to have her pacifier @ home, so she's quite reluctant to go to the childcare, but no difference now (she get no pacifier in the childcare & @ home).

Back to our bubble blowing times...

This afternoon Desmond (our neighbour) had given us a few of those bubble blowing thing we used to play when we were young... dunno if anyone can remember... hahaha...

But Ashley had never seen such thing before... she was pretty used to those bubbles being blown out with those soapy water though... And, when daddy blown a few for her to try, she thought it was those soapy bubble which will burst when her hand touches them!! And in the end, the blown bubble burst cos she were too hard on them! hahaha...


But if you see this photo, she had carefully put her last bubble on her hand trying to transport it back home! hahaha....

Disney restaurant in singapore!

We finally had the chance to visit the Disney restaurant at anchorpoint! It's pretty small, and there's not much variety on the menu. But I guess the children loves it.

 

Ashley with her waffles and ice cream!

 

 

Daddy busy preparing for her to enjoy...

 

Basin for washing!

 

 

Waiting patiently for her food...

 

Mummy eating while Adwin looking on... hahaha...

Mickey Pizza!
 

Ashley's Waffles!


Can't recall what dish was this... LOL...

 

 

 

Ashley's first spicy curry dinner!

We brought Ashley for her first spicy dinner on Saturday!! Cos daddy had a craving for Fish Head Curry that night so we went for Muthu Curry @ Suntec!! hahaha... You can see from the picture, she was actually screaming hot after the dip of curry with her crackers, BUT she still insist on dipping more curry with it & putting them into her mouth!! She had at least swallow down a big cup of water after that!! Must say, it's a nice try for a little girl before 3 years old! hahaha...

My ashley!

Here's an update of my ashley's picture! Nowadays it's so hard to get a clear picture of her! She'll shun the camera when she knows we's trying to take her shot! In another 1-1/2 months time, she'll be 3YO. We's planning to let her celebrate her birthday in her childcare, so she can look forward to class everyday!

Adwin holding bottle

My 5 month old son is trying to hold his bottle by himself! And I had also just started him on rice cereal yesterday. And to my surprise he seems to be enjoying it! And he will cry for more when he finished it! Haha.

Forgot to update: he had his 5th month jab last friday. And guess his weight? Actually I expected more, but he's already 9.47kg now, 69cm tall. But his next appt will be in sept, when he'll be 9 month old!

Singapore Flyer

Our flyer ride with our 2 kids. Haha. Had our post- mother's day dinner at the seafood paradise at the Singapore Flyer. Interesting ride! But can't really tell we are at the highest peak in Singapore.

And here's a free drawing for Ashley & Adwin today @ the Flyer...

Ashley home after HFMD

See how happy my dear ashley is after 11 days stay at her granny place! I believe she must be thinking I can finally play with my toys!

And it was after seeing a doc than confirm that those rashes on her hand are just RASHES, and not HFMD! So she can return to the child care afterall!

After all these weeks commotion, I really think being in good health is so important! Never mind the gender, so long your children is in good health, it's such a blessing! And am starting to give supplements to ashley too, as she's such a fussy eater.

Finally the two siblings can play together again! And our family can continue our daily routine too! :)

My mother's day celebration

This is my mother's day cake from Angie's the choice Yam cake. But it's so sad cos ashley contracted HFMD since last Thurs, labour day till today. Hope she will recover soon.